Collapsible crib attachment for bedsteads.



No. 838,591. PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906 E. G. SMITH. GOLLAPSIBLE CRIB ATTACHMENT FOR BEDSTEADS.

APPLICATION TILED JULY 11. 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTCE.

COLLAPSIBLE CRIB ATTACHMENT FOR BEDSTEADS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application filed July 11, 1906. Serial No. 325,699.

To (LZZ whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, ELMER 0. SMITH, citizen of the United States, residing at Carpentersville, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Collapsible Crib Attachment for Bedsteads,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to collapsible crib attachments for bedsteads; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a crib attachment adapted to be applied to the side rail of a bedstead and which is so constructed that when it is not in use it may be readily detached from the said rail of the bed and folded into small space for storage purposes. 4

The attachment is so constructed as to be,

applied to the side rail of the bed without the use of screws or clamps or other devices that might mar or injure the surface of the furniture.

The attachment consists, primarily, of a bottom having hinged end pieces which are adapted to describe a semicircular arc and a hinged side piece, which can describe the quadrant of a circle only. Gear connections are provided between the side piece andv a pair of supporting-legs, whereby the said legs are brought into vertical positions with relation to the bottom at the same time that the said side piece is caused to assume such position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the crib attachment. Fig. 2- is an end View of the same, showing the parts collapsed; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one corner of one of the end pieces, showing the specific means of temporary attachment with the corner of the side piece.

The bottom 1 is provided at its ends with the hinged end pieces 2 2. Said end pieces 2 are so hinged to the bottom 1 that they may describe semicircular arcs. To the outer ends of the bars 3 3 of the bottom 1 are fixed the castings 4 4. The gear-segments 5 5 are pivoted to the sides of the castings 4 4 and are provided with the sockets 6 6, which receive the edges of the side pieces 7. The gear-segments S 8 are pivoted to the bars 3 3 in vertical alinement with the segments 5 5. The gears of the two segments intermesh. The segments 8 8 are provided with the sockets 9 9, which receive the upper ends of the supporting-legs 10 10. The chains 11 11 are attached at one end to the side piece 7 and at their other ends to the end piece 2 2. The angle-irons 12 12 are pivoted to the under sides of the bars 3 3 and are provided with the recesses 13 13, which are adapted to receive the upper edge of the bedrail 14, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. The corners of the side piece 7 are provided with the pins 15, and the ends of the upper edges of the end pieces 3 are provided with the sockets 16, which when the said ends of the end pieces 3 are brought in vertical alinement with the ends of the side piece 1 are adapted to receive said pins and are held in such position by means of the eye attachment 17, located upon the socket 16.

It will thus be seen that when the crib attachment is applied to the side rail of a bed, as indicated in Fig. 1, that either one or both of the end pieces 2 may be swung down into the same horizontal plane as that of the bottom piece 1, the edges of the said end pieces resting upon the upper edge of the bed-rail 14, and thereby relieving the hinge connections of said parts from strain, or either one of the end pieces 2 may be swung up and secured in vertical positions with relation to the bottom piece 1. The chains 11 relieve the outer ends of the end pieces 2 from strain. Also when the side piece 7 is swung down toward the bottom plece 1 the intermeshing gear-teeth of the segments 5 and 8 cause the said segments 8 to describe artial rotations, which brings the supporting legs 10 up under the bottom of the piece 1. The angle-irons 12 are then swung around under the free ends of the legs 10, and thus the parts are held in collapsed positions.

In folding the crib attachment the end pieces 2 2 are first swung down upon the bot tom piece 1, then the said piece 7 is swung down upon said end pieces, when the legs simultaneously swing up, as above described.

To set the crib attachment up, the operation above described is reversed.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A collapsible crib attachment adapted to be applied to the side rail of a bedstead consisting of a bottom piece, intermeshing gear-segments pivotally supported by said bottom piece, -a side piece attached to one set of gear-segments, supporting-legs at- IIO tached to the other set of gear-segments,

pivoted angle-irons adapted to engage the side rail of a bed and adapted to be swung so as to secure the supporting-legs 1n knockeddown position with relation to the saidbottom.

2. A collapsible crib attachment adapted to be applied to the side rail of a bed consisting of a bottom piece, intermeshing gearsegments pivotally attached to said bottom piece, a s1de piece supported by one set of gear-segments, supporting-legs attached to the other set of gear-segments, angle-irons 

